Pen-holder



' (No Model.)

H. .P. E. SGHUSTBR.

PEN HOLDER- No. 448,083. Patented M8810, 1891.

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I-IERMANN F. E. SOHUSTER, OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.

PEN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,083, dated. March 10, 1891.

Application filed $eptembei 3, 1890. Serial No. 363,840. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IIERM-ANN FRIEDRICH ERNST SCHUSTER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Savannah,in the county of Chatham and State of Georgia, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Pen-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

Hy invent-ion relates to a pen-holder from which worn-out pens can be readily removed without soiling the fingers.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure I is a longitudinal sectional view of a pen-holder embodying my improvement, with a pen-nib in place. Fig. II is a perspective View, part being broken away and illustrating the method of discharging the pen. Fig. III shows a nib and the parts of my holder detachedfrom one another. Fig. IV is an end view of theholder; Fig. V represents the same after semi-rotation of the handle. Fig. VI shows a modification of my cylindrical sleeve and detent.

The handle 1 of the pen may be of any approved shape, and it terminates in a metal ferrule 2, which, however, instead of being cylindrical throughout, as usual, has a little more than half of its outer end cut away, so as to leave an approximately semi-cylindrical tongueS. A cylindrical rotatory pen-clamp sleeve 4: is employed. The pen-nib 5 is held between this sleeve and the semi-cylindrical tongue 3. A detent, preferably in form of a cross-bar 6, arranged diametrically of the sleeve near its outer end, holds the nib to its position with respect to the sleeve. Dislodgment and discharge of the nib without soiling the fingers is accomplished by presenting the holder with its front end downward and grasping the sleeve between the thumb and finger of one hand, and then imparting with the other hand a semi-rotative movement to the handle proper and its ferrule projection. The bar 6 prevents the nib sharing in this rotation, and as soon as the ferrule by such partial rotation is removed from contact with the nib the latter drops out by gravity, or if too much gummed or rusted fast to the sleeve to drop out readily it can be dislodged by a slight knock of the holder on the table.

It will be seen that the construction is such that the holder when brought to the discharging condition, as last mentioned, is without any further manipulation in condition to receive a new nib, whose dislodgment may in like manner be effected by a further semi-rotation of the handle within its sleeve, and by that action again put in condition for a new nib insertion.

Instead of the cross-bar, the sleeve may have any other form of'detent-such as ears 6, Fig. VIto prevent rotation of the nib with the ferrule.

I claimherein as new and of my in vention 1. In a pen-holder, the combination of the holder proper, a ferrule projection thereof, having a semi-cylindrical tongue 3, and an inclosing rotatory cylindrical sleeve having a detent to prevent the nib sharing in the rotation of the said handle proper.

2; In a pen-holder, the combination of the holder proper 1, a ferrule projection 2 thereof, having the semi-cylindrical tongue 3, an inclosing rotatory cylindrical sleeve 4, and a crossbar (3, which extends diametrically across said sleeve, as and with the object set forth.

HERMANN F.

\Vitnesses:

A. F. K. AUSTIN, CHAS. F. FULTON.

E. SOI'IUSTER. 

